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A New Biography Traces the Pathology of Allen Dulles and His Appalling Cabal
Unless you believe we’re governed by shape-shifting space lizards, your darkest suspicions about how the world works may be an underestimate. By Jon Schwarz.
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The Indonesian Massacre: What Did the US Know?
A cache of intelligence documents declassified by the CIA this fall offers a new opportunity to revisit the 1965 mass killings in Indonesia, and what the US knew about them. By Margaret Scott.
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Black Magic, Nazi Scientists and Nuclear Panic: How We Got to Outer Space
On humanity's often fanatical, obsessive, and fearful road to the cosmos over the course of the 20th century. By John Higgs.
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The Georgian Coup Saga … What It Was Really About
Jeffrey Silverman, the Georgia Bureau Chief for Veterans Today, has recently accused the US Ambassador to Georgia, Ian Kelly, of being directly involved in the plot to overthrow the democratically-elected Georgian government... By Henry Kamens.
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The fuel for a nuclear bomb is in the hands of an unknown black marketeer from Russia, U.S. officials say
The presence of identical fissile materials in three smuggling incidents indicates someone has a larger cache and is hunting for a buyer. By Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith.
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The Doomsday Scam
For decades, aspiring bomb makers — including ISIS — have desperately tried to get their hands on a lethal substance called red mercury. There’s a reason that they never have. By C.J. Chivers.
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary's Daughter
On January 25, 1983, my father and twenty-one of his friends were led onto a snowy soccer pitch in Amol. There, the Iranian government executed them. By Neda Semnani.
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Russian defectors living the dead end of the American dream in distant Oregon
For Janosh and Victorya, who in Russia lived as a former bag man for a Moscow bank and an FSB agent, the dream of a life as defectors has been plagued by spats with the FBI, and an unexpected life in a city they’d never heard of.
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The Double Life of John le Carré
How a con-artist father and treason in MI6 created the bard of the Cold War. By James Parker.
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WarGames for real: How one 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII
Newly released documents reveal the KGB software model that forecasted mushroom clouds. By Sean Gallagher.
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Theremin’s Bug
How the Soviet Union Spied on the US Embassy for 7 Years. By Adam Fabio.
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The last days of Peter Bergmann
In 2009, a man calling himself Peter Bergmann arrived in an Irish town with a plan to disappear forever. By Ciaran Cassidy and Morgan Bushe.
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First glimpse of lost library of Elizabethan polymath John Dee
The huge collection of books belonging to Dr John Dee, adviser to Queen Elizabeth I and proto-modern scientist, is being exhibited for the first time. (Dec. 16)
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Revisiting South Africa’s Bomb
“At the time of South Africa’s decision to abandon its nuclear weapons program, the South African bomb was already small enough to arm both the H2 and South Africa’s ballistic missile under development. And, perhaps not so surprisingly, remnants of this program showed up on the market for export to places like Pakistan.” By Jeffrey Lewis. (Dec. 3)
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Syria anti-Islamic State documentary maker ‘assassinated’ in Turkey
Naji Jerf was killed in Gaziantep, only a couple of months after Isil claimed responsibility for killing Ibrahim Abdelkader and a friend in southern Turkey. By Louisa Loveluck.
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Maritime ‘Repo Men’: A Last Resort for Stolen Ships
Thousands of boats are stolen each year, and some are recovered using alcohol, prostitutes, witch doctors and other forms of guile. By Ian Urbina.
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The Black Chamber
The man who made Edward Snowden inevitable.
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From letters to apps, the secret code language of lovers
How generations of Valentines have invented ways of writing for one reader alone. By Britt Peterson.
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Declassified: U.S. Military’s Secret Cold War Space Project Revealed
Newly released documents describe the U.S. Air Force’s secret cold war project known as the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). By Leonard David.
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The Dragnet
How a man accused of million-dollar fraud uncovered a never before seen, secret surveillance device By Russell Brandom.
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